Dennis Skinner

Dennis Skinner (11 February 1932-) was the Labour Party MP for Bolsover from 18 June 1970 to 6 November 2019, succeeding Harold Neal.

Biography
Dennis Skinner was born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England on 11 February 1932, and he worked as a coal miner before becoming President of the Derbyshire chapter of NUM in 1964 at the age of 32, becoming the youngest-ever chapter president. He went on to serve on the Derbyshire County Council and the Clay Cross Council during the late 1960s, serving as a Labour Party member. He went on to be elected to Parliament in 1970, and he was a member of the party's socialist wing. Skinner supported the equalization of the age of consent, civil partnerships, adoption rights for same-sex couples, to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, and for same-sex couples to marry, and he was also strongly pro-choice. However, Skinner was friends with the centrist Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and supported Brexit in 2016.